The Trump "Hush Money" Trial starts today

[taiwan_girl]

@George-K I understand (and part agree) with you. But, knowing that you are under a super powerful microscope and anything you do/say/etc will be analyzed, why would you do/say/etc anything?

I'm sure he has a whole communications team working for him. East enough for them send out news briefs, go on Fox News, etc. with the same claims. The fact that he is doing it just re-inforces my opinion that he does not have anybody to keep in inside the guard rails. Super big deal when he says stuff about the trial? Maybe not. Super big deal if he is in charge of the US nuclear bombs? Yup.

[George K]

@taiwan_girl said in The Trump "Hush Money" Trial starts today:

knowing that you are under a super powerful microscope and anything you do/say/etc will be analyzed, why would you do/say/etc anything?

To ask that question is to answer it.

Also, presumably, he can use that to mount an appeal. "I was figuratively shackled by a biased judge!"

he does not have anybody to keep in inside the guard rails

Never did, never will.

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K said in The Trump "Hush Money" Trial starts today:

If the judge orders him jailed, what do you think would be the effect on his campaign?

He might conceivably get to meet Mr. Bigly in the showers.

[George K]

Oh, Ms. Daniels Clifford, were you lying then, or are you lying now?

[Jolly]

Point is, she lied. Publicly. Legally.

[Jolly]

I've said before, Trump would LOVE for this judge to jail him.

[jon-nyc]

@George-K said in The Trump "Hush Money" Trial starts today:

Oh, Ms. Daniels Clifford, were you lying then, or are you lying now?

I think we all know the answer to that.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Jolly said in The Trump "Hush Money" Trial starts today:

Point is, she lied. Publicly. Legally.

And Trump's telling the truth, presumably.

[Renauda]

@Doctor-Phibes said in The Trump "Hush Money" Trial starts today:

@Jolly said in The Trump "Hush Money" Trial starts today:

Point is, she lied. Publicly. Legally.

And Trump's telling the truth, presumably.

Personally, I cannot imagine either one of them telling anything other than falsehoods. On any topic, in court under oath or out of court before the cameras. Lies and more damn lies. They simply don’t know any better.

[George K]

Remember, this trial isn't about sex. If that were the case we'd be talking about JFK Clinton. It's about an NDA, which somehow they've managed to contort into an election finance violation - even though the event occurred a decade before the election.

[Axtremus]

@George-K said in The Trump "Hush Money" Trial starts today:

Remember, this trial isn't about sex. If that were the case we'd be talking about JFK Clinton. It's about an NDA, which somehow they've managed to contort into an election finance violation - even though the event occurred a decade before the election.

But act(s) of covering it up was committed during the election and allegedly campaign funds were used in the coverup.

[George K]

Covering it up is not a crime. THat's the exact definition of an NDA.

Yesterday, Trumps banker said that Trump knew nothing about where the funds were allocated from.

The "felony" part of this trial is that there was an election crime (funds diverted to cover up a crime). No crime has been adjudicated. Makes it difficult to tag a felony onto it, doesn't it?

[taiwan_girl]

@George-K said in The Trump "Hush Money" Trial starts today:

Never did, never will.

Exactly, and I think that is a problem.

(As Paul Ryan said today - character matters)

[taiwan_girl]

@George-K said in The Trump "Hush Money" Trial starts today:

.....this trial isn't about sex

But in the public mind, it is. Though I dont think that this willl change anybodies (voters) mind one way or the other.

[George K]

@taiwan_girl said in The Trump "Hush Money" Trial starts today:

(As Paul Ryan said today - character matters)

We're way past that. You're not wrong, of course, but people look at how things are going and say..."huh?"

But in the public mind, it is (about sex).

Why do you think that is? Perhaps because EVERY story refers to it as the "Hush Money Trial?" Again, there's nothing illegal about an NDA. Happens between people, corporations, etc. all the time.

Bragg has distorted it, as I mentioned it into something else.

REmember, the Feds declined this case years ago.

[taiwan_girl]

@George-K said in The Trump "Hush Money" Trial starts today:

@taiwan_girl said in The Trump "Hush Money" Trial starts today:

(As Paul Ryan said today - character matters)

We're way past that. You're not wrong, of course, but people look at how things are going and say..."huh?"

But in the public mind, it is (about sex).

Why do you think that is? Perhaps because EVERY story refers to it as the "Hush Money Trial?" Again, there's nothing illegal about an NDA. Happens between people, corporations, etc. all the time.

Bragg has distorted it, as I mentioned it into something else.

REmember, the Feds declined this case years ago.

Because it is more "exciting".

Same reason most stories about President Biden's son's laptop start out with talking about the photos on there of him with drugs, prostitutes, etc.

[George K]

@taiwan_girl said in The Trump "Hush Money" Trial starts today:

Same reason most stories about President Biden's son's laptop start out with talking about the photos on there of him with drugs, prostitutes, etc.

That's right. Titilation always wins.

But, your analogy falls a bit short because the laptop contains evidence, or at least suggestions, of actual crimes.

Being naked with a hooker, snorting cocaine, while pulling her hair is probably not illegal (well, the cocaine part is). Documenting your father's participation in alleged bribery probably is.

[Jolly]

@taiwan_girl said in The Trump "Hush Money" Trial starts today:

@George-K said in The Trump "Hush Money" Trial starts today:

@taiwan_girl said in The Trump "Hush Money" Trial starts today:

(As Paul Ryan said today - character matters)

We're way past that. You're not wrong, of course, but people look at how things are going and say..."huh?"

But in the public mind, it is (about sex).

Why do you think that is? Perhaps because EVERY story refers to it as the "Hush Money Trial?" Again, there's nothing illegal about an NDA. Happens between people, corporations, etc. all the time.

Bragg has distorted it, as I mentioned it into something else.

REmember, the Feds declined this case years ago.

Because it is more "exciting".

Same reason most stories about President Biden's son's laptop start out with talking about the photos on there of him with drugs, prostitutes, etc.

Why do you think they put Stormy Weather on the stand today? Pure sensationalism.

Look, this is lawfare. Stormy is for electoral consumption. The trial is done simply for election interference. Bragg knows that if he doesn't get a conviction, he's kept Trump off the campaign trail and they've kept the sex aspect at the forefront . Even if he does get a conviction, it's going to be overturned...In two years Waaay after the election.

Lawfare. Election interference.

Just another day in TDS Land.

[taiwan_girl]

@George-K Agree. Just like having an affair with a pornographic actress is not a crime.

It is not the crime, but the coverup.

[Jolly]

What coverup?